According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a storage element configured to store both data and metadata, wherein each piece of data is associated with and stored with a corresponding piece of metadata. The apparatus may include a controller processor. The controller processor may be configured to, in response to a piece of data being written to the apparatus: generate a piece of metadata that includes a set of parameters to facilitate a at least partial repair of a block information map, and embed the piece of metadata with the corresponding piece of data.
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16. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein for the first data, the metadata, is stored as a header field with the piece data.
17. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein each piece of metadata further includes a hash code configured to facilitate error detection upon the associated piece of data.
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